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Re: Power Upgrades

To: DANMAS@aol.com
Subject: Re: Power Upgrades
From: Aaron Johnson <sugar@holly.ColoState.EDU>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 10:36:16 -0700 (MST)
Cc: diiulio@ix.netcom.com, triumphs@autox.team.net
or you could just take the nice 2.0 liter out of my Galant VR-4 with 210
horses and absolutely not weight.  And for under $1000 dollars in mods you
can have at least 350 horse....hmmmm something to think about....

aaron

On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 DANMAS@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 99-03-12 09:33:41 EST, sugar@holly.ColoState.EDU writes:
> 
> > There really are no cheap way to increase horsepower a noticable
> >  amount.  <snip>  The way to really start making
> >  more horsepower is this formula  $=horsepower.  <snip> $100-300 <snip> 
>  $50-1000 <snip> 200 bucks
> <snip>$800  <snip>  ($100 or so).  <snip> $200 <snip> $4.50 a gallon for gas
> <snip> $1600 <snip> You now have an engine with about 230
> >  horse and no reliability.  <snip>
> 
> Aaron,
> 
> Actually, there is a "relatively" cheap way - pick up the phone and order a
> Ford crate enigine and stick it in where the tired old six used to be. For a
> little more than the cost of a good rebuild, you can have 230 very reliable
> and very streetable horses. Or, spend another grand or so and get the GT40
> engine with aluminum heads and 320 horsepower - streetability yet to be
> determined. 
> 
> Your equation $ = horsepower is valid, but there is one other equation that
> also works, and that is displacement = horsepower. Unfortuneately,
> displacement often equals dollars as well, so we have HP = displacement = $.
> 
> All the above said with tongue firmly in cheek!
> 
> Dan Masters,
> Http://members.aol.com/danmas
> Atlanta GA (till tomorrow)
> 
> 


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